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Basilisk, sb. A fabulous creature described by Pliny (viii. 33, xxix. 19) as a 



serpent, of which many marvels are told : p. 200, 1. 30, note; p 362 1 32 



Battle, sb. A body of troops : p. 71, 1. 30. They were more ignorant 



in ranging and arraying their battailes Essay Iviii. p. 337. 

 Be, 3 phi. Are: p. 10, 1. 17 ; p. 33,!. 5; p. 50, 1. 23. in the phrase 



had been to handle ; p. 185, 1. 16. 



Because, conj. In order that : p. 228, 1. 13. See Matt. xx. 31. 

 Become, used reflexively, p. 216, 1. 30. Can neither become themselves 



= can neither act in a graceful or becoming manner. 

 Beholding, part. Beholden, indebted : p. 104, 1. 30. The stage is more 



beholding to love, then the life of man. Essay x. p. 36. 

 Bent, adj. Crooked, twisted; and so, sinister: p. 25, *1. 3. 

 Besides, prep. Beside: p. 12, 1. 33 ; p. 159, 1. 23. 

 Bird-witted, adj. Incapable of fixed attention, volatile: p. 183, 1. 14. 

 Blanch, v. t. To flinch from, avoid: p. 182, 1. 21. Some are never 

 without a difference, and commonly by amusing men with a subtilty, 

 blanch the matter. Essay xxvi. p. 105, 1. 13. 



Blasphemy, sb. In its literal sense of defamation or slander : p. 17, I. 15. 

 Compare the use of blaspheme in Shakespeare, Macbeth, iv. 3. 108 : 

 Since that the truest issue of thy throne 

 By his own interdiction stands accursed, 

 And does blaspheme his breed. 

 Blemish, v.t. To stigmatize: p. 27, 1. 28. 

 Blow up, v.t. To inflate: p. 7, 1. 20. 

 Blown up, p.p. Inflated: p. 39, 1. 25. 

 Bond-woman, sb. A female slave : p. 43, 1. 25. 

 Borne out, p.p. Compensated for; p. 19, 1. 12. 

 Bounden, p.p. Bound, indebted: p. 268, 1. 28. 

 Braver, adj. Finer, more beautiful: p. 216, 1. 10. 



The Duke of Milan 

 And his more braver daughter could control thee. 



Shakespeare, Tempest, i. 2. 439. 

 Break, v.t. To train: p. 197, 1. 12. Still used of horses. 



Why, then thou canst not break her to the lute ? 



Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew, ii. I. 148. 

 Briber, sb. A taker of bribes: p. 222, 1. 25. 



Brittany, sb. Britain: p. 93, I. 14; p. 94, 11. 12, 17; p. 264, 1. 26. In 

 tlie first and last of these passages the word is spelt Brittanie in ed. 

 1605. On the other hand, what we call Brittany is uniformly, I believe, 

 called Britaine in Bacon s Hist, of Hen. VII. 

 Broken, p.p. Trained : p. 156, 1. 5. 

 Buckle, v.t. To bend: p. 102, 1. 10. 

 Buffon, sb. The old spelling of buffoon : p. 136,!. 20. Florio (Ital. 



Diet. 1611) has Buffonare, to ieast or play the biijfon? 

 But only. This expression is found where we should now use one or 

 other of the words: p. 234, 1. I. So only but is used for but* or 

 only : p. 174, 1. 10. Compare Shakespeare, Meas. for Meas. iii. I. 3 : 

 The miserable have no other medicine 



But only hope. 



By how much. In the same proportion as : p. 12, 1. 8 ; p. 129, 1. 13. 



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